Why, that family-values Bible thumping hypocrite....what a phony! Outrageous. He must resign immediately, the big phony..

Oops, my bad. It is Senator Menendez, a Democrat.

That is different. Most important: No hypocrisy...it is what is to be expected. As a liberal, he never said he had values. Morality is relative. Who was hurt, after all. He was compassionately helping the local Dominican economy with his own stimulus package....Democrats alway do it for the children !

That's the price of liberals crowing about "hypocrisy" with sex scandals involving preachers and religious people, and Republican conservative politicians, because they claim "family values" ...and hell yes, sure they are.. This by definition means Democrats are all in on moral relativism, just live and let live, and have no values to break that would make them hypocrites...cant have it both ways.

Babble babble rant rant.

Someone who washed down a gram of methamphetamine with a cup of turpentine would make more sense.

That's the price of liberals crowing about "hypocrisy" with sex scandals involving preachers and religious people, and Republican conservative politicians, because they claim "family values" ...and hell yes, sure they are.. This by definition means Democrats are all in on moral relativism, just live and let live, and have no values to break that would make them hypocrites...cant have it both ways.

Babble babble rant rant.

Someone who washed down a gram of methamphetamine with a cup of turpentine would make more sense.

Dodge, dodge, dodge.

showing your true partisan colors. A democrat has sex with an underage prostitute and you see nothing wrong. Sheesh.

But TMZ can't hold a candle to our network here for getting the goods in every corner of the world. We always seem to have the entire story, albeit unvetted, here before the FBI or the CIA has it, be it from 1,000 miles beyond Timbuktu or the barrios of the Dominican Republic. If the answers come a cropper, or turn out to be wrong, well, there's always something new in the feed.

Had Bob Menendez had a R by his name, he would have either been pounded with questions about his scandal by ABC’s crypt keeper Martha Raddatz, or been forced to resign his Senate seat by now. But in the era of the low information and the corrupt media, ABC can get away without asking Menendez one question about his reported lust for underage Dominican girls. Scandals only exist for Republicans in this day and age, not far left corrupt Democrats."

"If Menendez is found guilty, nobody is going to jump to his defense, but yeah, it's usually worse when Republicans do it."

Thanks, slomag, couldnt have said it better.

And to think Democrats are mostly known as the "Party of Government" ....

Now we know, Democrats are also "The Party of No Family Values" "The Party of Never Proseltyzing Abstinence; If it Feels Good Do It"; "The Party of Never Abhoring Sex, even with 16 year olds"

And most of all, The Party of "At Least We Arent Hypocrites"...

How about Democrats are the party of not trying to be your Mommy. You think you're the party of small government fighting against the Nanny state, but you need your politicians telling you how to behave between the sheets.

If you're looking to your politicians as your moral compass, you're in big trouble, regardless of political affiliation.

Well, I didn't say anything of the sort. But since you bring it up.....

Has he spoken out against prostitution? Has he gone on moral crusades against prostitution? Then it would be an issue.

To the extent this democrat has failed to advocate for legalizing prostitution, then he is a hypocrite.

As for prostitution generally, it would probably be better overall if it were legal. As with many drugs, illegality only pushes the trade underground, where pimps (like some drug dealers) cause harm that would not result were it legal and regulated.

At least prostitutes do not have to worry about being beaten and killed by pimps/customers in Amsterdam.

I know, I know. You believe that a magic invisible man told some humans what the invisible divine law is, that those humans accurately wrote it down thousands of years ago, and that one of the things magical invisible man said was all non-marital sex is immoral. So you'll declare yourself right, pat your self on the back for fearing an invisible man, and saunter off.

Which is why there isn't any real point in discussing with you.

I don't live my life according to what a political faction wrote thousands of years ago to advance its own agenda.

So, having sex with an underage girl is no only not a crime, if you are a democrat, has somehow gotten us into this wide ranging discussion about prostitution in general.

it appears you are unable to defend the perp, nor will you call for his removal. I guess the children don't matter after all. Let them be play things for rich, old, fat, leftie senators.

Menendez was divorced in 2005 and has two adult children, now what he does on his free time is up to him. If he did anything illegal then he should be dealt with accordingly. Is there any truth to the accusation? Is a 16 year old under the age of consent in the Dominican Republic? Did he think she was older? Maybe that answer is really only of interest to his adult daughter. If there are legal issues, there should be consequences and a Senate ethics committee rebuke; but even if under age the Congress generally doesn't care.

It's really not even a campaign issue as he was just re-elected; so lets's move along as there are more important issues to deal with. The economy, immigration reform, gun safety legislation, etc..............

Menendez was divorced in 2005 and has two adult children, now what he does on his free time is up to him. If he did anything illegal then he should be dealt with accordingly. Is there any truth to the accusation? Is a 16 year old under the age of consent in the Dominican Republic? Did he think she was older? Maybe that answer is really only of interest to his adult daughter. If there are legal issues, there should be consequences and a Senate ethics committee rebuke; but even if under age the Congress generally doesn't care.

It's really not even a campaign issue as he was just re-elected; so lets's move along as there are more important issues to deal with. The economy, immigration reform, gun safety legislation, etc..............

Thank you.

If it's not a crime, we can find it icky but it isn't exactly a "remove him from office!" offense.

It is a crime.

But, besdes that, it is immoral. Didn't Mark Foley get the boot for texting "bad things" to a minor?

The problem is not withthe 16 year old, the problem is with your (and Menendez's) hypocrisy.